Today’s front pages paint a depressing picture for Miliband

And that’s it – the full impact of Ed Miliband’s leader’s speech, outdone in the news stakes by, among other things, ISIS, the conviction of Dave Lee Travis and a family under attack by “100 green fang spiders”.

It’s notable that the few mentions it did get were mostly for the fact that the Opposition leader somehow forgot to mention the deficit – even The Guardian and The Independent give front page space to the “blunders”. By my count, The Mirror is the only paper to give a front page, entirely positive, plug for the Labour leader. The meagre fruits, you might say, of a core vote strategy.